Are you ready for Open Leadership? That’s the question that Charlene Li asks in her book, Open Leadership: How social technology can transform the way you lead. A major theme in the book is that leadership is about relationships, and because social technologies are changing relationships, leadership also needs to change. And while most executives…
Join The Ken Blanchard Companies for a special complimentary webinar and online chat beginning today at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 noon Eastern). Best-selling author and consultant Ken Blanchard will be joined by Southwest Airlines president emeritus Colleen Barrett to present the key concepts from their new book Lead with LUV: A Different Way to…
“If you seek long continued success for your business organization, treat your People as family and LEAD WITH LOVE.” That is the advice that Herb Kelleher, legendary founder of Southwest Airlines, offers readers in the foreword of a new book, Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success that looks at the leadership…
Once, while sharing her thoughts on leadership, Colleen Barrett, president emeritus of Southwest Airlines (stock symbol LUV), was asked if she was worried that competitors would now be able to steal her management ideas—like writing thousands of thank you notes to employees. She said “no” because the real magic wasn’t in knowing the concepts, it was…
Most workers do not feel that their employee performance reviews are valuable. That is what Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40 Company, discovered when he surveyed students in a business course he teaches at the University of San Diego. The problem, according to Ridge, is that most performance systems are used for the wrong reasons. They…
What keeps companies from acting on what they know? Seven culture issues according to Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton. In their classic business book, The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, Pfeffer and Sutton point out that the problem in most organizations isn’t knowing what to do—but actually doing it. See if…
What are the characteristics of a high-performing organization? How does leadership contribute (or detract) from that process? These are the questions answered in the new second edition of Leading at a Higher Level, released earlier this year from FT Press. In it, best-selling business author Ken Blanchard identifies–together with the consultants and founding associates of The Ken Blanchard Companies–four…
“Love” as the key ingredient to business success? Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett make a convincing case in their new book, Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success. I received an early manuscript of this new book (due out in January) after attending Barrett’s keynote address at The Ken Blanchard Companies annual…
Today’s nominees in our top leaders survey/contest are beginning to push the edges of what many of us might consider a traditional leader. In addition to leaders from business and government, today’s nominees included 24-year-old Daily Beast columnist Meghan McCain and 30-year-old Doc Hendley, the founder and president of Wine to Water. McCain is part…
We’ve received a bunch of new nominations in addition to yesterday’s initial response to our Twitter survey/contest for a gift basket of Ken Blanchard books. (See details below.) Some of the new nominees are: Leadership expert and author, John Maxwell Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh Oprah Winfrey Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally Molecular Biologist and 2009 Nobel Prize…